Henry Smith VAN EATON

(1826-1898)

VAN EATON, Henry Smith, a
Representative from Mississippi; born in Anderson Township,
Hamilton County, Ohio, September 14, 1826; was graduated from
Illinois College, Jacksonville, Ill., in 1848; moved to Woodville,
Miss., in 1848; taught school; studied law; was admitted to the bar
in 1855 and commenced practice in Woodville, Wilkinson County;
elected district attorney in 1857; member of the State house of
representatives in 1859; enlisted in the Confederate Army and
served throughout the Civil War; resumed the practice of law in
Woodville, Miss., in 1865; appointed chancellor of the tenth
Mississippi district in 1880; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3,
1887); appointed by President Cleveland a member of the Board of
Visitors to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1887;
member of a commission to examine and report upon the last
completed portion of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1888; died in
Woodville, Miss., May 30, 1898; interment in Evergreen
Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present